The paper presents the Philippine experience towards a gender approach, i.e., placing women at the center of fisheries community development. It gives the structural and historical determinants on the status of Filipino ...

Coastal inhabitants life cycle in some areas in Indonesia are still have concerned with traditional cultural heritage. Rapidly development next to coastal land for varieties utilization, could be encouraged serious threatened ...

Fisheries have played a dominant role as foreign exchange earner of Thailand s economy. Illegal practices, in particular, have caused damage in reefs, the marine habitats for living and non living organisms. Degraded coral ...

The purpose of the discussion which follows is to clarify the roles of fishers organizations in coastal fisheries management. Even if there is much disagreement over the appraisal of fishers organizations, whatever the ...

Community based approaches to management of coastal fisheries through fishery co-operatives may offer important opportunities. This is shown in the successes achieved in Japan and other countries. In order to play their ...

In the present paper, the meanings of open access and limited entry and various ways of fisheries management systems are illustrated. Further, the meaning of community-based fisheries management system (CBFM) and its place ...

The paper discusses experiences of the government through the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) in the provision and operation of locally-based municipal fish ports and ice plants to support the fishing ...

The purpose of the Paper is to highlight the importance of and the need for effective investment in community-based infrastructure as a prerequisite for coastal fisheries management on the basis of the Indonesian experiences ...

This paper describes and discusses the values, perceptions and attitudes of fisherfolk and other coastal stakeholders towards ownership of fisheries resources and its exploitation, management and sustainability. It reports ...

The main theme of the study was to understand the attitude of small-scale fishermen to the fishing right system and the factors influencing their attitude to it in Chantaburi Province. The perception of information of the ...

The problem of fisheries regulation is essentially one of assigning property right to a scarce resource. Community-based, self-regulatory management regimes based upon exclusive use rights accorded to artisanal fishermen ...

The Community Fishery Resources Management Project, launched in 1991 in Malalison Island, Philippines is a development-oriented research project integrating biology, economics, sociology, engineering, and public administration. ...

Open-access fishery has led to problems of overfishing and dissipation of resource rent. Among fishery biologist maximum sustainable yields are preferred. To economists, the optimal level of fishing is at maximum economic ...

There is a growing realization in Southeast Asian of the need for increased participation by resource users in fisheries management and greater localized control over access to the resource. Community-based resource ...